“Fuel and food shortages and extreme inflation prompted thousands of protesters to the Presidential Secretariat and President Gotabaya Rajapaska’s residence earlier on Saturday, forcing him to flee[.] … Sri Lanka’s economy collapsed after a ban on chemical fertilizers, intended to encourage environmentally-friendly organic farming practices, halved agricultural production so that the country was no longer self-sufficient. … Europe is experiencing similar backlash over policies that ostensibly help the environment.”

Originally published here by the Daily Caller on 9 July 2022.